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A new Iron Sommelier Challenge has been inaugurated in the US Said to test the skills of wine waiters under the most extreme conditions, the challenge is divided into six…

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach --Bertrand Russell My liberalism says…

So you’re back again? Yes, and this time it’s even more personal and personable!   Remind me what it is all about? The Real Wine Fair is an artisan growers’…

This post also appears on our Real Wine Fair website. Head there fore more info about the fair, which is taking place in London on the 17-18th March. A pure…

A little bit of Jekyll, a little bit of Hyde – Rory Gallagher I can’t second guess the intention of an amorphous group of critics and commentators any more than they…

When I first became interested in wine I was instructed to taste in a certain way, to break wine down into its constituent parts and to assess analytically (and dismissively).…

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau I've been asked by sundry, if…

I’ve argued on these pages and elsewhere that it is trite to bandy loaded terms such as “natural”, “conventional” and “movement” willy-nilly as in “natural wine movement” and to have…

The Prog Nose-Ticator sniffs out some further unlikely bouquets to inhale... * 2011 Burgundy will be re-evaluated as a much better vintage than previously thought, because 2012 etc… What do…